Fuck, I hate Adobe. Can we please hate this company more?
Apple, Microsoft, Sony…it’s cool to hate them but can we please direct some fucking ire to this absolute pinnacle of piece of shittery that’s always on the frontier of the shittiest business practices in all things IT?
How has this compamy escaped a class action lawsuit by the entire population of the world?
When I was in college and we got student license edition I always preferred to use on principal alone...and it somehow performed better than the licensed edition.
To be real I don't think the GNU Image Manipulator even has that bad a UI. Like yes it's convoluted but A) that's literally Adobe's fault B) you need a wiki for both anyway
It's crazy to me that Adobe has managed to to make any money. Their software products at their core are pretty solid, however all of their products are covered in barbed wire and throned vines. The idea that basic features require a subscription is beyond bonkers to me. I don't know how they managed to survive the 90s at all.
I hate Adobe, all my homies hate Adobe, and it's deeply frustrating there has not been a meaningful alterative yet.
the affinity suite is a good alternative if you're not on linux, not that adobe supports linux last i checked. There's also https://www.photopea.com/
Really depends on the use case, plenty of better painting options out there now.
For photo editing, a dedicated raw editor can cover a lot of territory.
For compositing heavy stuff, I use gimp or even blender.
inkscape is awesome for vector work.
i could go on.
i think a lot of people forget how difficult it was to learn adobe software when they started, and it's tough to switch and lose that muscle memory, but even if the alternatives aren't as good, most have been improving over the years and adobe has just gotten worse and worse. Redirecting money from adobe to alternatives will accelerate that.
It's also much easier to write scripts for adobe alternatives, so it's possible to get productivity boosts in that domain, depending on how you work.
They survived the 90's because they weren't subscription-based back then. They could charge a lot more, but they had to actually invest in development so that clients would be willing to pay for an upgrade. Once development started stagnating, and they had an enormous market share, they could switch over to the subscription model and start charging people to access the software (and their files) in perpetuity.
They could charge a lot more, but they had to actually invest in development so that clients would be willing to pay for an upgrade.
That one thing I hate about technology as it is. It's not modern tech is inherently bad, it's that technology is engineered around becoming more profitable rather than better. They aren't making better products anymore, they just finding new ways to charge you for them. UGH.
I think it's because they aren't quite as ubiquitous. Most the people heavily involved with Adobe products do so for creative work, and that's a relatively small niche comparatively.
Sure, that's about the extent of the everyday use case, a shitty file format. Im not talking about search, email, calendar, operating systems, and all kinds of other things you will regularly touch on the internet.
In not saying Adobe isn't prominent, just comparatively a lot smaller.
Adobe managed to suppress the entire field of creative software by buying out every potential future competitor and killing off their product, for decades, until everybody forgot that's a kind of software you can make.
As someone trying to become more creative. By God do I hate Adobe. They’re greedy pigs and proud of it.
I also hate it for what it represents, they’re industry standard so if you want to follow your dreams and become a creative. Guess what? You have one of many paywalls in your way to stop you. There is nothing porky wants more than for all arts to be luxury hobbies for only the rich.
Say what you will about Apple, I gave them a couple hundred bucks almost fourteen years ago and I can just use their video editing suite as much as I want and they give me every updates on the reg.
You can also pirate their pro software by walking into an Apple store and copying the app from /Applications onto a thumb drive. No DRM or copy protection whatsoever.
Firefox has honestly been a better PDF reader than the inventors of the PDF for about a decade now.
Adobe PDF reader is the peak of bloatware and really shouldn't be installed anywhere anymore. Last I saw, it was like 400MB of software to read-only open a file type? Could be gigs if they have AI shit in it now too.
Despite the huge market share PS is so much worse & less convenient than my usual digital art program, Clip Studio. What do you mean you can't non-destructively mirror a canvas in PS?!?
i use pirated 5-6 years old versions of PS and AI (illustrator, not the machine learning buzzword) that don't have any AI (the machine learning buzzword) features and all the DRM functions have been neutered. i bought a download link on taobao for like 10 kuai, worth it.
i use them because the alternatives (gimp/inkscape) are pretty shit imo, but for drawing and colouring i use krita which is actually pretty good
Acrobat is the most unusable piece of shit I've ever had the displeasure of trying to read simple text PDFs on. Glad I remembered Sumatra exists goddamn
I pray that a decent alternative to their suite becomes Linux-compatible (even if it's just a buggy WINE prefix) because whilst Adobe sucks ass, I'm struggling with Inkscape and GIMP (though I'm pretty decent at both nowadays)
Before I even knew to hate Adobe, they were my favorite company to pirate from in college. Them and ChaosGroup
I am admittedly not a super-user, I basically only use vector and raster editing maybe once every 6 months, but for what it's worth I've managed to survive using affinity for most of my needs. I work in the AEC industry so we have a different PDF editor (thankfully)
I think affinity avoids getting under Adobe's skin by omitting certain popular features (for example, Designer still does not have image trace, which was probably 50% of what i used illustrator for), but otherwise they're serviceable